[Vision2020] The Slate Bailout Guide

Kenneth Marcy kmmos1 at verizon.net
Wed Dec 10 11:24:06 PST 2008


The Slate Bailout Guide

An interactive cheat sheet on the trillions of dollars in federal rescue 
packages.

By Chris Wilson and Karim Bardeesy
Updated Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, at 6:13 PM ET

Since the economic-stimulus package in February, the federal government has 
offered more than a dozen multibillion-dollar rescue packages for a variety 
of industries and people endangered by the financial chaos and the recession. 
The magnitude of even one of these mega-bailouts is hard enough to grasp—see 
the "Explainer's" take on the meaning of $700 billion—and combined they 
represent trillions of dollars in federal commitments. The following Slate 
visualization attempts to put the magnitude of these rescue packages in 
perspective.

http://www.slate.com/id/2206356/ 


Ken



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